President Trump edges closer to firing Robert Mueller.

Vladimir Putin consolidates his grip and Democrats battle over their future.

Lots to talk about.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

I'm punch drunk already and it's just Monday.

That's what's going on here at the studio.

A little bit later today, I'm going to be flying out to Pennsylvania.

I'm speaking at Susquehanna University, which is happening on Tuesday. And then I'm speaking at Georgetown on Wednesday. So it's going to be a packed week full of wonderful, wonderful things. And we have so many things to talk about today, including the president of the United States, who appears to be on the verge of at least considering maybe firing Robert Mueller. Maybe that's speculation. Maybe it's not.

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Wechamp!

And I don't know, that's not really how he says it, but it just feels like it should be that way because it's all capital letters. He tweeted that out this morning. Earlier, he tweeted out, the Mueller probe never should have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by crooked Hillary in the DNC and improperly used in FISA court for surveillance of my campaign, all caps.

Whitshunt! So President Trump really going off. Now what led all of this to happen? Well,

on Friday afternoon, the president decided, well, really the DOJ decided to fire ex-FBI

Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Now, Andy McCabe should have been fired long ago. If you really call it afternoon, the president decided, well, really the DOJ decided to fire ex-FBI deputy director, Andrew

McCabe. Now, Andy McCabe should have been fired long ago. If you really recall,

Andy McCabe was the fellow whose wife had been paid basically by Terry McCalloff when she was

running for Senate in Virginia, and she lost, but didn't matter. She was very close to the Clinton team.

Andy McCabe had been far too close.

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